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Show ajEWfcrea&utMK'Uyi dMMmB. AW Ji 'tf. .m W. V THE .ARGUS. COAST DEFENSE MORTARS. I roast defenses of the United Statesare features rehabilitated of tlio Conspicnous the powerful mortar batteries already mounted or m process of completion in various seaport citiea. When the present appropriation is exhausted over 150 of these ch mortars will bo ready for the enemy. They are mounted in deep pits, are invisible to the enemy and will rain a destructive lire upon the decks of tne enemys ships in case of war. The cut shows one of New Yorks mortar batteries. TWELVE-JNCI- 12-in- Business. Woman come in and asked for consummated lye, said the grocers new boy with a grin. Yon didnt try to correct her, did yon? asked the grocer. Me? Naw. Im on to my job better than that. I just handed her a can of consecrated lye and didn't say a word. Knew I Exactly overhead, strange as it may seem, on tho highest spring of the arch of Virginias natural bridge, is a figure of a gigantic spread eagle proudly perched in the very position in which it is seen on the American coat of arms. Much In a Name. Whats in a name? Everything. Yon cant begin to think how much better Snawley feels, who used to be only Her Punishment. night watchman at a swimming "Oh, Harold! Last night I dreamed I school, since somebody called him Bosdied and went to purgatory, and how night commander of the bath. do yon suppose I was punished? My dear little wife lias never done anything deserving of punishment, re- ton Transcript. THE TEXAS, THE NAVYS UNLUCKY WARSHIP. The second class battleship Texas, which recently sunk at her dock in Brooklyn because of an accident, is considered the unluckiest ship in the navy, xler plans were bungled, she has cost nearly 4,000,000, although designed to cost but 2,500,000, and her career thus for lias been a succession of accidents. WHAT HE LOVED. two lovers there are I know them well Who learned the lesson lovo comes to teach, (Those eyes are bright with the old, old light. Whose hands seek each for each. Dark haired was she. Her eyes were gray. For sake of her across the sea I sailed away. And this love of theirs seems a thing most rare, For each of the lovers has silver hair. tempest and defeat Death, All passed me by. With years came fortune fair and Hcot And rich was I. His face is mellow with passing years, But with never a line that is hard or bleak. Her face is a rhyme of the olden time With a tinge of rod in her cheek. Again for me the sun locked down Familiar skies. I found my love ; her locks had grown Gray as her eyes. Since both of these lovers have silver hair. I had a love. Alas, she sighed, No longer fair! forget me, now I loved thy heart," I whispered low, And not thy liair. San Francisco Chronicle. Tlie Best Han. Ah, Mike, allow me to congratulate said the heavy member of the yon! William Parry, the stage manager of Who was the best firm to tho porter. the Metropolitan Opera House, New at man your wedding? York, has formed an opera bouffe comfoive bate sor. He Dinny Gillgory, which will open at Manhattan plied the gallant Harold. But wliat did yon dream? I was made to do all tho things I had ever told my acquaintances I would do if I were in their place. Oh, it was too horrible to think of r London Fun. min and two polacemin, sirl pany, Beach with Little Faust July M. EDISONS PICTURE TELEGRAPHING MACHINE. 'Wizard Edison and Patrick Kenney have a machine llmt will telegraph a picture many miles. The original drawing is indented, a needle follows the indentations and another needle in the receiving oilice makes blue dots on sensitized paper. 2G. A Tift i deem this more than passing fair, -- J Let time go by, but love may last. As true os ever true love may be. Hay theirs be the smile that after awhile Shall wait for you and me t Ah, sweeter would seem lifes toil and care If there were more lovers with silver hair! Post Wheeler in New York Press. Full. How does he get a full house, I wonder? Perhaps by driving his audience to drink. Detroit Tribune. GIIAQUETTES WONDERFUL WHEEL. U. Chaquette, a French inventor, of Bridgeport, Conn., has invented a motor that is probably tho nearest approach ever made to a ierpctual motion machine. Ilie motor is a wheel 82 feet in diameter. Its spokes are simply double iron girders. They look just like sections out of an elevated railroad structure. The hub is a brick and cement cone 7 or 8 feet liigli. Two power engines sfairt the wheel. Tho inventor claims that with 140 horse power lie ran run the big wlieel, and that tho indicator on the compressed air tank snows 2,500 horse power, which leaves 2,SG0 70-hor- se horse power which has been developed by tho wheel itself. |